Adding lights

…Nuke has three types of lights, a point…light, a spotlight and direct or parallel light.…They all support shadow casting, and can be…created in Nuke or imported from FBX files.…We're starting off the 3D scene here, with no lights at all.…With no light in the scene, you get a flat lighting model.…In other words, the actual RGB value of…all the texture maps, is preserved in the render.…So let's switch to 3D, and then we'll pull back to take a look at our scene.…Whenever we add a light, the lighting model switches to…an 18% diffuse shading model, and I'll show you that.…

Our lights are here in a 3D> Lights.…Let's start with the Point light.…It lands at origin, throwing everything in the dark.…So, I can, in the screen, pick it up in y.…I'll move it back here.…I want it to be, sort of behind and above the camera.…Okay.…Maybe like so, all right.…Now, if I look through my camera, and lock at the viewfinder.…I can dial up the intensity.…We can even adjust the color.…And even, dial in the falloff that we want.…

Switching to the 2D view, it still looks like the flat shading…

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10/4/2016

Released

5/20/2014

Visual effects dominate at the box office, and Nuke is the compositing software that is used at high-end studios to create those mind-blowing effects. In this comprehensive course, digital compositing pioneer and Nuke authority Steve Wright introduces this complex and powerful tool to visual effects artists new to Nuke. Starting with an introduction to the unique node-based interface and progressing through techniques like color correction, keying, rotoscoping, and tracking, this course covers Nuke from top to bottom.

This course was created by Steve Wright. We're honored to host this training in our library.

Topics include:

Navigating the timeline, nodes, and Curve Editor

Working with channels

Merging images

Color correcting

Transforming and reformatting images

Rotoscoping

Keying and compositing

Warping and morphing footage

Compositing in 3D

Skill Level Beginner

7h 36m

Duration

261,952

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Q: This course was updated on 05/01/2015. What changed?

A: The author added a "Nuke 9 New Features" chapter, which covers what's new in Nuke 9.